With a powerful Internet search, Ke Shaobin found out all the information of the four people in the group photo.
Zhang Ronghua, his father was a real estate developer and his mother was a jeweler. As an only child, he had been pampered since childhood, his life was profligate, and he changed his girlfriend more often than clothes. The yacht in the photo was a private yacht he bought, he also had a private jet, and every year he called a few friends abroad for vacation.
Li Decheng was Zhang Ronghua’s cousin, family conditions were not as good as him. His parents opened a clothing company and Li Decheng had 40% of the company’s shares, and he could live well by eating the capital.
Jin Luo, the Prince of the Venus Group, the largest Internet technology company in Beishan City, for which Lawyer Zhou was currently serving as legal counsel.
Shen Haibin, Zhang Ronghua’s friend, was also a rich second generation. The two often hang out together, and there were countless photos of the two on Weibo.
The four people in the photo were more or less related to Lawyer Zhou——
Li Decheng was the ultimate beneficiary of the divorce case represented by Mr. Zhou; Jin Luo was the heir of Venus Group, of which Mr. Zhou served as legal counsel; Zhang Ronghua met with Lawyer Zhou yesterday; Shen Haibin, who had approached Lawyer Zhou five years ago to represent him in a criminal proceeding in which a girl sued him for rape, was eventually released in court for lack of evidence.
Yue Xingwen looked at this group photo thoughtfully and said, “The four people have a close relationship, and Lawyer Zhou’s business ability is very strong, so when they encounter legal problems, they will introduce Lawyer Zhou to other friends?”
Lan Yarong nodded and replied, “I agree with Xingwen’s statement. Lawyer Zhou’s parents are ordinary working-class people, and it’s difficult to directly know people in this rich second-generation circle. Judging from the timeline, Shen Haibin’s criminal case occurred five years ago, and he should be the first to know Lawyer Zhou; Then, he introduced Lawyer Zhou to Jin Lup, so that Lawyer Zhou came into contact with Venus Group and became legal counsel; Then, introduced him to Li Decheng and secretly helped Li Decheng get the custody of the child in the divorce case; Finally, Zhang Ronghua met with Lawyer Zhou privately.”
Shen Haibin -> Venus Group -> divorce case -> Zhang Ronghua’s unknown case. According to the timeline, when the four of them needed legal help, they introduced Lawyer Zhou to a friend, which just made sense.
Xin Yan asked a question and said, “Aren’t lawyers specializing in a certain direction? For example, criminal law, economic law, and marriage law. Different lawyers are good at lawsuits in different fields, how can Lawyer Zhou accept all lawsuits?”
Lan Yarong said, “There is also an all-around lawyer. At the undergraduate level, we are required to go through all the laws before being divided as graduate students. Some ambitious lawyers will continue to learn after work, memorize the legal terms, and accept all kinds of cases, so that his business will be very broad, the client resources will be more, and the income will of course be more.”
Yue Xingwen frowned and said, “I think there may be a problem with the ‘Shen Haibin case’ represented by Lawyer Zhou five years ago. Senior sister, please take a look at the case records.”
Lan Yarong scanned the case information on the computer and simply said, “The girl is a college student, went to the bar to be an escort girl to earn quick money. Shen Haibin went to the bar to play with her, raped her in the bar private room. The woman did not leave evidence at that time, ran to the bathroom in panic, and reported the case the next day accompanied by her girlfriend. Shen Haibin denied the rape, saying that both of them want it. In the end, the court found that the plaintiff’s evidence was insufficient, and Shen Haibin was released on the spot.”
Qin Miao said coldly, “This girl is obviously inexperienced. She should not go home to take a bath, but should report the case as soon as possible, find a doctor to identify the injury, and leave evidence of the man’s semen, so that it’s possible to win, right?”
Lan Yarong nodded and said helplessly, “Many girls lack legal attempts and are bullied, so they first rushed to the bath, cried and when they calmed down and thought of reporting the crime, they had missed the best time. However, she can’t be blamed for this, she is not a law major, and it’s normal to panic when suddenly encountering this kind of thing.”
Most people found it difficult to be rational in the face of emergencies, and it was normal for the girl to lose the lawsuit, after all, she had no evidence, and the court could not convict rape based on her words alone.
Yue Xingwen looked at the pale girl in the case record and said, “This girl, will she hold a grudge and take revenge on Lawyer Zhou? Check out her information.”
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After Ke Shaobin checked, he was surprised and said, “The plaintiff of this case is called Qin Shiyin, and she also worked at the Xinghai Building! On the 27th floor, a children’s training institution, she teaches music.”
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Lan Yarong suddenly said, “I found a turning point in time. Lawyer Zhou has been representing criminal cases in the years since he graduated from graduate school, which is consistent with his graduate study of Criminal Law. But just five years ago, after he helped Shen Haibin win his case, he suddenly switched careers and started representing cases in Economic Law and Marriage Law, without touching Criminal Law again.”
Why didn’t he take criminal cases anymore?
Yue Xingwen was silent for a moment and analyzed, “In ordinary divorce cases, the hatred value should not be so great as to kill. For example, in the divorce case of Chen Xueqin and Li Decheng, although she did not get custody of the child in the end, she could continue to appeal, or find a way to visit her son, rather than killing the lawyer in anger,”
The teammates agreed and said, “That’s right, I have never heard of someone who loses a divorce case and kills the lawyer.”
“Chen Xueqin played mahjong all night, and the alibi is very convincing. Her husband got custody of the child, kept all the shares and there was no reason to kill the lawyer.”
“The couple should not be directly related to the death of Lawyer Zhou.”
Xin Yan concluded, “The line of the divorce case of Li Decheng and Chen Xueqin is to lead to the rich second-generation friend group behind, and confirm that Lawyer Zhou often collects bribes, and even eats both ends for making money.”
Yue Xingwen nodded in agreement, “So, the criminal case he took over is the key.”
Criminal cases such as rape and homicide could leave indelible scars on victims and relatives.
Lawyer Zhou talked and described the black as white in court, the party involved were likely to hate him even more, thus killing and wanting to take revenge, which has a motive for killing.
It was also strange that after the case five years ago, Lawyer Zhou no longer represented criminal cases.
Lan Yarong said, “This rich second-generation friend group still has to be carefully investigated, and the case five years ago is very critical.”
Yue Xingwen glanced at the time, it was almost 3:00am in the morning. He remembered that Jiang Pingce asked him to go back to sleep before 3 o’clock, so he said to everyone, “Let’s close here today, everyone has worked hard. Go back to rest first, and get up at 8 o’clock in the morning to act.”
Lan Yarong’s residence in the apartment building was a two-bedroom suite. Qin Lu and Qin Miao just lived with her.
Yue Xingwen just teleported over by Plate Movement, and must teleport back so as not to leave strange records in the apartment’s monitoring. So, Qin Lu teleported back to the apartment room with Yue Xingwen, and then switched places to Lan Yarong’s residence. Lan Yarong, Lin Manluo and Qin Miao walked back normally.
After returning to the room, Yue Xingwen found that Jiang Pingce had fallen asleep.
Pingce did not rest for more than thirty hours in a row, he must have been very tired, and he seemed to be sleeping quite deeply. Worried about waking up the other party, Yue Xingwen lightly stepped onto the bathroom to take a shower and dry his hair, before touching the bed and gently lifting the covers to lie down.
Not long after, Yue Xingwen also fell asleep.
There were too many clues found today, it was simply a brainstorm, his head suddenly swelled and pained, so he urgently needed to rest.
He slept until dawn.
When he opened his eyes, Jiang Pingce was already dressed neatly. Yue Xingwen hurriedly went to the bathroom to wash, and asked while washing, “You got up so early, did you sleep well last night?”
The corners of Jiang Pingce’s lips slightly raised and he said, “Very good.” Sleeping in a bed with Xingwen, of course he slept well.
Yue Xingwen quickly washed his face and said, “Last night, we sorted out a bunch of new clues. Today we have to rely on you, you have a police officer’s card in your hand, it’s still very convenient to handle the case.”
When Xingwen changed his clothes, Jiang Pingce said, “Let’s go to the 30th floor first to talk to Zhang Ronghua.”
Yue Xingwen quickly followed. Both of them took the elevator to the 30th floor, knocked on the door of room 30-07, and a lazy voice came from the room, “Who? Early in the morning?”
Jiang Pingce: “Police.”
The other party opened the door. He was wearing a white pajamas. He should have just woken up, he looked like a hanger, and while yawning, he said impatiently, “Is it to eradicate pornography and illegal publications? Comrade police, I slept alone last night.”
Jiang Pingce took out his police card and glanced at him. He said coldly, “I’m a criminal police officer. Mr. Zhang Ronghua, we have a case that needs your assistance in the investigation, can we go in and have a chat?”
Zhang Ronghua was stunned for a moment, “Criminal police? I haven’t committed a crime lately ah!”
Jiang Pingce and Yue Xingwen bypassed him and walked into the room.
X-New Concept Hotel’s decoration style was indeed very distinctive. Zhang Ronghua lived in this kind of e-sports theme room. There was a transparent chassis, cool looking gaming computer, mechanical keyboard and mouse.
The information found by Ke Shaobin mentioned that Zhang Ronghua was a game fan.
Yue Xingwen’s eyes quickly scanned the room to search for useful clues, and he saw a suitcase next to the bed, with several sets of clothes in it. The bed was slightly messy, in addition, there was no special place, and he did not find a second person’s clothes, shoes. He obviously lived alone.
Jiang Pingce asked, “At 12:30pm on March 7th, did you meet Lawyer Zhou Ziyang?”
Zhang Ronghua frowned and said, “That’s right, I made an appointment with Lawyer Zhou to ask for a favor.”
Yue Xingwen asked, “Be specific, what kind of favor?”
Zhang Ronghua coughed and said, “I was the manager of my father’s company before, but in fact, I was just a name, and I had no real power. My father gave me a sum of money to use as startup capital to start a small company to test the water, to hone. Lawyer Zhou is the legal counsel of Venus Group, so I asked him some questions that need to be paid attention to when starting a company. I wanted him to be the legal director of my new company.”
Jiang Pingce stared at him coldly and asked, “Just this?”
Zhang Ronghua nodded with a sincere expression and said, “En, I discussed this with him before. This time I came to let him give me the contract, anyway, I don’t understand how to write the contract, so I just let him write it.” After speaking, he turned and took out a contract from his bag and handed it to Jiang Pingce, “This is the contract he drafted, I haven’t had time to sign it. I plan to go back and find a lawyer to look at it.”
Jiang Pingce took a look at him, and sure enough, it was an agreement to hire Zhou Ziyang as the legal director of Ronghua Group.
Yue Xingwen also leaned over and looked at the contract carefully, and said suspiciously “Your company’s headquarters is in Anming City. Why don’t you find a lawyer in the local area but come to Beishan City to find Lawyer Zhou?”
Zhang Ronghua laughed, “It takes only 2 hours to drive from Anming to Beishan through the highway. I trust Lawyer Zhou’s business ability more than looking locally. Now, the online office is also very convenient. If there are any important documents and contracts that need to be reviewed by legal counsel, I will first let the company’s legal counsel read it, and finally send the email to Lawyer Zhou for final review.”
His reasons made sense.
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce glanced at each other, and the latter asked lightly, “Do you know Shen Haibin?”
Zhang Ronghua was stunned, and subconsciously replied, “Of course I know him, Shen Haibin is my little… No, police officer, you asked me to inquire about Lawyer Zhou and Shen Haibin, what happened?”
Yue Xingwen replied, “Lawyer Zhou is dead.”
Zhang Ronghua opened his mouth in shock, “Ah?”
Yue XIngwen added, “Just at 00:00 am that night before yesterday, when you went out of the apartment building, he fell from the opposite Xinghai Building and feel to his death.”
Zhang Ronghua: “……”
The rich second generation in front of him should not be the murderer. After all, when he went downstairs, Lawyer Zhou happened to fall from the opposite side, and he had no time to commit the crime.
But the clues behind his involvement must be very useful.
Jiang Pingce said, “Say, five years ago, what happened to Shen Haibin’s case?”
Wow, it’s so interesting
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